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Panel: Carbon Exchange 101 - controlling emissions and boosting the economy

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🗓️ 16 September 2009

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Carbon Exchange 101 Eileen Tutt, Deputy Secretary for Climate Change and Environmental Justice, Cal EPA Lawrence Goulder, Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics, Stanford University Josh Margolis, CEO, Cantor CO2e Greg Dalton, Vice President, The Commonwealth Club – Moderator Could carbon exchange be the best route to controlling emissions? Some argue that the cap-and-trade approach lets companies buy the right to pollute, while others see a way to encourage clean industry while boosting the economy. This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on September 20, 2009. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to this podcast of Climate One at the Commonwealth Club. I'm Greg Dalton, founder of Climate One.

0:38.3

Climate One brings together thought leaders from around the world

0:41.1

to advance solutions to global warming.

0:44.0

The Commonwealth Club is a non-profit, nonpartisan forum open to the public.

0:48.9

Join us online at commonwealthclub.org.

0:55.2

The United States is about to set a cap on carbon emissions

0:58.4

and enter into some form of trading of carbon emissions.

1:02.0

Could cap and trade be the best route to controlling those emissions?

1:05.1

Is carbon exchange politically feasible in the United States?

1:08.4

How does it compare to a carbon tax?

1:11.8

We're here to answer these questions with our panel of experts who will break down the details along with your questions.

1:17.1

Tonight we have Eileen Tut, the Deputy Secretary of Climate Change and Environmental Justice

1:21.4

at the California Environmental Protection Agency. Josh Margolis, the co-chief executive officer

1:27.3

of Cantor, CO2E, and Lawrence

1:30.2

Goulder, Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at Stanford University. Please give our

1:35.3

panelists a warm Commonwealth Club welcome.

1:40.9

Larry, let's begin with you. If you could just give us sort of your summary definition and

1:46.5

explanation of what is carbon cap and trade? Well, cap and trade is an alternative to conventional

1:53.6

regulation as a means of controlling or reducing emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide.

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